Unit 5: French transport
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Unit 5: French transport
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain strategies for working out the meaning of words.
- Recognise nouns that are cognates or near cognates.
- Recognise transport words in written form.
- Join in with a song using actions to aid recall.
- Form simple statements about a picture, using and adapting a model.
- Create a range of different phrases using a sentence builder.
- Generally, speak words with accurate pronunciation.
- Write a simple sentence, using a model for support and using two different accents.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 2: French adjectives of colour, size and shape
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: French transport language detectives
Lesson 2: How shall we travel in France?
Lesson 3: On the road in France
Lesson 4: Travel the French speaking world
Lesson 5: Journey to a French school
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources
French
Knowledge organiser: French – Y3 French transport
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Year 3 French transport".
Other
French phonics videos: Y3 French transport
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
French
Vocabulary display: French transport
A display version of the key vocabulary from the French transport unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
- Geography: Use maps (and) atlases… to locate countries and describe features studied
- Mathematics: Statistics